The Teenager goes to Seattle...

The teenager left for his Grandparents house this morning... we had to leave our house at 4:45am. After an almost sleepless night the night before, and not much naptime, I am exhausted! It was bittersweet letting him go, I know how much fun he will have with his Papa and Nene, and he drives me crazy between knowing it ALL, and asking me EVERYTHING (I know it sounds like a conflict, but the questions are only those I don't know the answers to, or ones he has already asked a BILLION times!).

However, the very minute he walked away from me at the airport... I missed him terribly and cried all the way to the car and home. My Man being the nurturer he is, reminded me how much harder it will be to "send him off on a mission and not get to call him in an hour after he leaves. And then when he returns, he will leave me again and head off to college, only to come home once, and then announce he is getting married and won't be home the next Christmas, they are going to her house. This is just preparing me for the times that could lie ahead." Yeah, that helped.

So after I got him off to work, with all his words of wisdom.

It started snowing... (yep your going to get allot of dog posts now that the teenager is gone... I have to get a life! just kidding, I love my dogs)

(I can't wait until I know what I am doing with this new camera... the learning curve is huge, I have forgotten allot more than I ever knew)

Somehow these sleeping dogs just know when its snowing outside...
Because they don't stay asleep very long....
We hope Taylor gets to be as fun at frisbee as Morgan is...

of course Rudy is nestled snug in his warm bed still.

WEEEEHOOOOO!!! ITS SNOWING!!!

Christmas 2007

We had our traditional Hoagie Sandwiches and Root beer floats last night. It is my husbands family tradition, and it is a really fun one to keep going. They did this growing up and I think all the kids still do it with their own families... it was one of the only traditions he came with when I married him. I was the high maintenance spouse! (but he has been training me well over the years, I am slowly learning to simplify my life)

I woke up at 2:30am to let the puppy go outside... and the light was still on in the teenagers room. I opened the door and he was watching a movie, he can never sleep on Christmas Eve. But he informed me he would stay put in his room and the movie should be over right about 5am, the hour in which his Dad gave him not to wake him up before that time. I told him I didn't think Santa would come to a house with lights on... and "he knows when you are sleeping and awake".

So he made it until 430am before he came in and woke us up to go see if Santa had come!

It was an early morning, crazy, but lots of fun. I am always thankful for a dvd in the stocking to be able to go back to sleep while I pretend to watch it.

Nobody got coal or soap this year... we were worried about the teenager and his smart mouth even up until the night before. But Santa did come, and he was really really good to all of us.

The teenager totally scored with a new set of Nike Golf Clubs (thanks to Santa and his many helpers this year) and a new golf bag and golf towel.

This is my two goofy boys trying to take pictures the night before with my new Cannon EOS Rebel Digital Camera they got me, they didn't know how to use it but looks like they had fun goofing around. Our Kodak is a great point and shoot camera, and this one will let me have fun creatively, so now I can really get back into my photography... I am so excited!

My Man got some camo gear and a gun case to go with the gun he bought himself before Christmas... we won't go there. But he is really happy, so that counts!

We have some of the greatest neighbors... one of our favorite ladies next door brought us an angel food cake with cinnamon swirl and peppermint frosting. YUMMY!

And this cute little mouse is a chocolate dipped cherry (the stem is his tail), with a kiss head, and slivered almond ears. Super Cute... I even get it... "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse"!

(sorry, I get really excited... I am usually kind of slow at symbolism stuff)

Feed the Sheep...

Over this Holiday Weekend Two J's is feeding our friends sheep again.

So we all went out today to help... well we actually just watched him work

and offered moral support.

But we were together... so I took a self family portrait, I'm getting much better huh?